Deleting Accounts

WordPress.com accounts cannot be deleted. However, you can easily delete your blog. If you’re unhappy with your account or blog for any reason, we can probably help. Feel free to contact us.

If you wish to leave WordPress.com, you can just leave your account inactive. To unsubscribe from any email notifications from WordPress.com, go to your subscription settings and check the box that says Block Emails and click save. See the subscriptions support page for more information about this.

Renaming accounts

If you just want to change your username, see the instructions on the Change Username support page.

In a nutshell, under Users → Personal Settings, you can click on the change link next to your user name to change it.

If you already registered the new account, repeat step 2 while logged in to the new account to change the email address on that account too.

Note: It may take some time for our system to completely release your e-mail address for use with another account. Please be patient, but if the delay seems longer then normal, please contact support for further assistance.

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